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What is the probability of being impacted by a significantly large space object in the next 1000 years?
Consider that a large asteroid strikes the earth about once every 100 million years.
The "Tunguska Event" meteor of 1908, had it exploded over a major city, might have killed millions of people. We could, and ought to, develop tech to prevent that sort of disaster.
The "Tunguska Event" meteor of 1908, had it exploded over a major city, might have killed millions of people. We could, and ought to, develop tech to prevent that sort of disaster.
You can't tax that so Leftists don't want any part of it.
This is actually something that we should be funding. Not trips to Mars, or trips to the moon, or any of the other nonsense that NASA wastes money on. But being prepared in case an asteroid is going to nail this planet - and having the means to shoot it down before it does....makes a lot of sense.
If only we'd had an administration that directed NASA towards exploring the technology needed to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid. Wait, we did, didn't we? Now we're floating the idea of going back to the Moon, apoparently because the decision makers felt that Apollo was so cool. (Which it was. But - the Moon? Been there.)
What is the probability of being impacted by a significantly large space object in the next 1000 years?
Well, the first step - and the one Schveikart et al. is arguing for - is to find out. We don't know the numbers, because we're not looking very carefully.
If only we'd had an administration that directed NASA towards exploring the technology needed to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid. Wait, we did, didn't we? Now we're floating the idea of going back to the Moon, apoparently because the decision makers felt that Apollo was so cool. (Which it was. But - the Moon? Been there.)
Yeah that same person made it so we had to rely on the Russians to get our guys into space. Yeah, those same evil Russians that you say are our worst enemy.
1. A youtube link without your own commentary is not a discussion.
2. You should go start a thread about this in the unexplained phenomenon forum
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